St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04
WHERE BEER is GOOD.
A Pleasant Visit to a Great Brew

"A fleaSanC Visit TO a Great Brew
ery---The People.
Munich Correspondence Baltimore American.
Beer! The very air of this place
smells and tastes of beer. 1t is every
where and at every place. What glo-
riOuS beer it is, too! One can sit down
and drink one of the quart pots empty
and not feel it as much as one of the
foam and thick glass decoctions as they
serve you in America for cents. am
not a drinking man, but can drink two
of the pots at lunch-that is, if l take it
at the Hofbrauhaus. Of all the beer sa-
looms, gardens and where beer is sold,
the HofbrauhauS beats them all. 1t is
great brewery where beer-Such beer
is brewed that makes one think he were
drinking nectar to swallow it.
1t is funny-looking old house, in the
center of the town, and when one goes
for his beer he has to get it himself, or
not at all, for there are no waiters-no
beer girls-only beer. When the moon
comes up, if you turn the corner alb
ruptly you will see before you two
story stone building, with low red roof.
About five windows face on the street,
and then you come to wide arch door
way. You enter here and come into a
paved courtyard. Early in the morning
and again at night you will see great
beer barrels piled in this paved place.
A dozen or SO are scattered about the
yard, and ON these are placed the great
stone quart beer pots, and men land
women, tOOD are standing around these
imprOviSed tables drinking, for the rude
benches under the shed to the left of
the court are usually SO crowded one
can not find seat. But first we don't
want seat; what we want is beer.
We enter another door facing in the
shed, and go into the Brauhaus itself.
Here is the sight to see. Watch the
people. At one side of the room are
great casks of beer, and behind low
wide counters stand four or five men
waiting to deal out the beer. Over the
door leading to the MAN hall, where the
tables and benches are, is tin sign
bearing the words: "Price of beer
to-day" To-day it was "a pfennig, or
5 As cents. just think of it-one quart
of the most glorious beer made for S As
cents. Having looked at the price, you
go toward large tank of running water
and look in and see if large stone beer
pot is in there; is so, you pick it up,
rinse it out well, and go to the opposite
side of the hall and take your place in
line to await your turn to reach the
beer-drawer. If no pot is in the tank
you will find one in rack of shelves
against the wall next to the tank. Have
your change ready, and when you pass
in by the little iron rails and reach the
counter you find man to take your "a
pfennig and your beer-pot, and give
the latter to another to fill. In an in
slant it is placed before you. Pick it
up and go forth to find place to stand
or sit to drink it.
If the tables are full, you place your
pot on barrel in the court and drink to
the health of the dear boys at home,
who are paying cents for only the
tiniest portion of what you have, and
what they get is no good, compared to
this.
Maybe you can get seat at table
inside the house with crowd, for ev-
cry One-high, low, rich and poor, male
and female, old and young to the
Brauhaus at least once day.
If the inside is full maybe you can
join this party under the shed and buy
some hard-bOiled eggs, turnips or bread
from one of the numerous old women
who hover about to sell you some. If
you want a better lunch, a madchen
from neighbOring restaurant will
bring you some hot meat and
cucumbers, like I had to-day, for
Is pfennigs, or about 16 cents.
The Germans love comfort and ease,
and the way they take it about the Brau-
haus is worthy of note. What could be
more characteristic than this picture of
the old man and his pipe and his beer
pot? One sees plenty of just such men.
| know very good-natured, jolly, fat
American, who loves to throw off his
coat on hot day in the summer and
have glass of beer beside him; and SO
when saw this man could not help
but think of my friend, and wish he
could have just such pot of beer at this
time-aye, a dozen of them-for one
dozen would not affect him more than
two or three American glasses of beer.
except extend him little, but he is
equal to it.
The Hofbrauhaus beer Is only sold at
the BrauhauS and one or two places out
in the town. A landlady when she has
HOfbrauhaus beer is fat and jolly. While
the landlord, who is SO fortunate as to
be able to sell the purest of pure beer,
greetS you like the good old soul that he
is. Of course, at other beer houses the
price of beer is more than at the Brau-
haus; the charge for pot of beer varies
with the day. and SO you have to be care
full to watch the quotation over the door,
SO as to have your money ready. You
generally get pint of beer at all the
other beer houses for cents, and good
beer it is, too.
Just imagine an American tramp with
6 cents and near the Hofbrauhaus! Say,
give him Is cents on a twenty-pfennig
day. What would he do? Why, get
three quart pots full of beer, and crawl
into barrel and die happy.
A Mean Trick.